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The Triumph of Achilles is a collection of poetry by Louise Glück, published in 1985 by Ecco Press. [1] It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. [2] The work concerns themes from classical antiquity and myth. [3] Literary critic Daniel Morris describes it as a "pivotal work" in Glück's oeuvre. [3]
Louise Elisabeth Glück (/ ɡ l ɪ k / GLIK; [1] [2] April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". [3]
Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose poems considered and revealed truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80. ... “Louise Gluck’s poetry ...
Louise Glück, the witty, candid and uncompromising former U.S. poet laureate who won the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, has died at age 80.
Averno or Lake Avernus is a lake west of Naples that the Romans mythologized as the entrance to the underworld. The Greek myth of Demeter's daughter Persephone and her marriage to Hades is a recurring topic in the collection, as are the themes of oblivion and death, soul and body, love and isolation.
The collection alternates between traditional poems and paragraph-long prose poems, [1] marking the first inclusion of prose poems in a book by Glück. [2] Kathryn Davis, a friend of Glück's, read the collection's poems as they were written. [3] She suggested Glück compose and include its prose poems.
A professor of English at Yale University, Gluck first rose to critical acclaim with her 1968 collection of poems entitled "Firstborn", and went on to become one of the most celebrated poets and ...
American poet Mary Karr for whom Glück served as a thesis adviser expressed disappointment, saying: "At this point in history, Louise Glück – my grad thesis advisor [and] a poet I deeply admire – wrote a minstrel show Nobel speech. In 1789, Blake's 'Black Boy' might have passed as 'abolitionist', but it came out of a shoe-polished white face.